Warrant – Rockaholic (2011)

I have been anxious to hear new Warrant music, with Robert Mason on vocals ever since I first saw them play live with Mason singing back in 2009.

When the band debuted a couple of their new songs at the M3 Rock Festival in 2010, I knew we were going to have another cool Warrant album on our hands before long.

With no surprise, Rockaholic has exceeded my expectations by far.

There are several great tunes on Rockaholic, and way too many to talk about individually. The songs that are amongst my favorites are “Sex Ain’t Love”, “Dusty’s Revenge”, Life’s A Song”,”Show Must Go On” and “The Last Straw”.

This is easily Warrant’s strongest album since Dog Eat Dog, and surpasses the previous effort Born Again with Jamie St. James by a mile!

Robert Mason is a fantastic vocalist, and some may argue, “Yeah, but he ain’t Jani Lane”, but quite honestly, I think he is a better hard rock singer overall. That isn’t a dig against Jani, I like him a lot too. I believe Robert Mason has the voice that is going to keep Warrant around for many more years. Rockaholic is great beginning to the Robert Mason era of Warrant, and is a CD you should be checking out!

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Jani who?
The BMF is now at the helm and this cd proves it….”The Show Must Go On” kills!!!!!!!! It should be the show opener from now on! Ya hear that Dixon….PLAY a new show opener dammit! “Sex Aint Love” would do it also……..
Hats off to Robert for putting balls back on this gig!

Warrant is one of my favorite bands, but I had sort of been boycotting them since Jani left. I have this album and I like a lot of the songs, but I still miss Jani. I can’t help it:( I saw Warrant in concert last year and they were good – the singer was good – but Jani is still my favorite. I have the same feelings about Skid Row. Anyway, I’m glad the Rockaholic album is doing well sales-wise (at least I heard it was).